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<span class="top">The Book of Lamentations</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.</td>
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<td class="v">4:17</td>
<td>As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.</td>
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<td class="v">4:18</td>
<td>They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.</td>
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<td class="v">4:19</td>
<td>Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.</td>
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<td class="v">4:20</td>
<td>The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.</td>
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<td class="v">4:21</td>
<td>Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</td>
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<td class="v">4:22</td>
<td>The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.</td>
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